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Avery Cooke
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wife of
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William Cook
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of the Pish
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of St James
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Clerkenwell
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in this County salesman maketh oath that her
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said husband living our
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the house of Correccon att Clerken
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well aforesd she this Depont hath sevall times carried vic-
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tualls to one Gerton a prisoner in the said
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about three weeks or a month since but was
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often times hindred from carrying such victualls into the
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sd prison to the sd Gerton by
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Mary Best
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the pson that
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the Key of the Gate to the said prison, and this Depont
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acquainted Capt Moult Governor of the said
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there
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who took noe notice thereof but
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called this Deponent a troublesome woman, And this
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Depont further saith that the prisoners in the said prison
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have not been allowed
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to drinck there for three or
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four months past, And this Depont hath seen and observed
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that sevall of the prisoners in the said prison have been
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Cruetly beaten and abused in the said prison by Mrs Gregory
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the housekeeper of the said prison & by the Whipper there
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and that she saw sevall other psons lately were refused
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to be admitted to carry victualls into the said prison to
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the prisoners there for their releife, And that she this Depont
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on Friday last in the evening saw three poore women
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Come out of the said prison who had been prisoners there for
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some time and that the said three poor women ap-
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peared to be very weak and meagre and were scarce able
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to goe and were almost starved with hunger and that the
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said poore women had been very much beaten & abused
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in the said prison as this Deponent verily beleives, their
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Armes and thighs being very much marked with black
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red and blew strokes
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4th day of
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Dec 1710
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Avery
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Cooke
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The above named Avery Cook maketh oath that about twoe
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years agoe or more she this Depont saw two or three poor Boys
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turned out of the said
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house of Correcion
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whoe appeared to be very mea
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-ger and weak and some of their Joes were rotted off with
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excessive cold & misery that they had undergone in the said
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prison & this Deponent saw one of the said poore boys imediate
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-ly brought back to the said prison in a wheelbarrow not being
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able to goe & this Deponent was informed that the said
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poore boy who was soe brought back dyed in the said prison
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in a day or two & that the sd other two boys were found dead
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the next day, one in an old house & the other upon a
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dunghill,
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The mark of
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Cooke
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before
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Mart. Ryder
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Herbert Jacob
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